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Guy Incognito's avatar

Thanks for the update. In reality, it should be that 63% found our Harris is a moron. The other 37% already knew. In other news, T (The Orange Menace) stated that the "special guests" in Ohio were eating people's pets. In time, as with many things our prescient friend has said, this will prove to be true, I am afraid. Feline Lives Matter! (FLM).

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Kim's avatar

There have also been reports of a sudden depopulation of ducks and other semi-tame avians.

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Guy Incognito's avatar

Yes. I have heard about the ducks and the geese. The media are now in the denial stage. The next will be to try to normalize it. And before I forget, Duck and Goose lives matter!

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Kim's avatar

Ah, yes. That's the good thing about this, it made people bring up the fact that they tried to normalize cannibalism way back when.

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Yes they did, didn’t they. They even ran a story on the pros of cannibalism in some big time rag…was it the NYT?

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Kim's avatar

There were dozens, in so far as I recall. Although it's, as usual, hard to find it all in the aftermath.

New Scientist earlier this year:

https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg26134821-200-the-real-question-is-why-arent-we-all-cannibals/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26134783-600-is-it-time-for-a-more-subtle-view-on-the-ultimate-taboo-cannibalism/

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Ethically, cannibalism poses fewer issues than you might imagine. If a body can be bequeathed with consent to medical science, why can’t it be left to feed the hungry?

maybe it is culturally ingrained, with roots in early modern colonialism, when racist stereotypes of the cannibal were concocted to justify subjugation.

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https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2011/11/09/142171134/the-politics-of-cannibalism-or-crazy-things-academics-write-about

NPR writing about the earliest indications in the sociology departments.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/style/cannibalism-tv-shows-movies-books.html

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Turns out, cannibalism has a time and a place. In the pages of some recent stomach-churning books, and on television and film screens, Ms. Summers and others suggest that that time is now.

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Of course! Our disgust against cannibalism is based in racism! I think those who support it should be first on the menu.

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

no no, you're wife found out from the mainstream media that Harris won the debate. I bet no one cited that the debate is irrelevant and chances are another "fix" is in. This time there won't even be a pause at night. While. like in a PCR test. they "find the votes" for Biden."

Maybe they should just vote by PCR test. "This person tests positive with Harris."

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Of course, I just thought that the fact that that was what is reported here in Japanese was instructive. I like the PCR for Harris test idea.

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Edwin's avatar

They are going ahead with the depopulation despite however many "speed bumps" they hit.

At this point, there is nothing between the train and the valley floor.

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Kim's avatar

If the emails are stored on the unis computers; and you haven't set up your email client to store them locally, or if your email client is set up to sync the status of the emails to their server, then, yes, they can remove those emails without leaving much of any trace.

Speaking of masks. It seems so odd to see all these unmasked Chinese tourists everywhere.

Personally, I blame all these ACs both generating heat and pumping out heat. My proof is that it gets milder the lower the density of ACs are in the area.

Given what a majority of US people in polled areas put in their bodies... that result sounds mighty low, no?

Was this 'caught' based on test results or just their feeling?

I take it you haven't heard of MasterCard, among other payment processors, pushing their carbon credit card?

Well, individualists aren't exactly known for trying to push their worldview down other's throats and trying to affect someone else's beliefs basically goes against our beliefs so it's not exactly odd to see dictatorial worldviews land positions of power in most cases.

Of course, it also doesn't help that most like to celebrate even once step in a favourable direction as some sort of ultimate victory; see for example gamer gate, and their reaction towards news about 'backtracking' of die.

The majority of people are also such that they only want to be seen as 'normal' and spend their time doing 'what normal people does'.

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Thanks for the inform on making emails disappear. That may be what happened.

The only contribution ACs have towards global warming is that those who believe in it like to position official thermometers in their exhaust outlets which gives an artificially higher reading. The Urban Heat Island Effect has long been known. ACs play no part in this. Cities are seas of concrete and asphalt, both of which reflect and store heat from the sun. During the day, with the sun beating down on the pavement, parking lots, and glass, steel and concrete buildings, cities become literal convection ovens. This was true before ACs even existed.

When in high school, I was a camp counselor at Boy Scout Camp. Once a week or so we made a supply run into the nearest town. As soon as we stepped out of the car, it was apparent that the city was MUCH hotter than the woods near the lake just a few miles away.

No, I had not heard that MasterCard has a carbon credit card they are pushing. We are so far behind in this fight.

You are right that moist just want to be “ordinary” with out thinking what that really means, but I still cannot understand it though I know it to be true.

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Kim's avatar

My comment in regards to ACs were intended as 99% tounge-in-cheek, in case that was unclear. Although, it is a fact that they do heat up their surrounding environment to a noticeable degree in locations with hundreds of rooms each being separately cooled by their own AC.

The surroundings in this case being on the order of tens of meters, not kilometers, in case that's unclear.

The insulation also tend to be especially poor in buildings in such areas which then means exceptionally inefficient cooling and thereby even more heat generation in the process.

In regards to the woods, you can experience a similar effect in the middle of the city by finding a walkway that takes you close to the canopy of a tree or two. Even in the sun it will feel cooler than the shaded streets below.

I don't think they understand it either. Like when they visit tourist spots like some checkpoint, all the way complaining, and after taking their "I'm normal" picture they head off to the next checkpoint without so much as even glancing at their surrounding.

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

The heat discharge from my ACs is a meter at most. Less noticeable in a breeze that dissipates it quickly. The only ones I have experienced that throw out heat that far are the massive ones for office buildings and are on the roof. However, if you have a lot of small units in various apartments with another building close to their outlets and little airflow, that would be a very unpleasant place to be. But localized just as the cooling effect is.

Yes! Someone besides myself who cites the lack of insulation in homes in Japan! So much energy could be saved if they would just insulate homes and apartments here. I must say that they do apparently in Hokkaido. A student from there once complained that Tokyo was cold. I said, “What!? You are from Hokkaido, how is it that you feel cold in Tokyo?” “Houses in Tokyo are cheap.” Was his reply and I instantly knew what he was talking about.

Just walking from the nearest subway station the Imperial palace in Tokyo is a great lesson in this. As soon as you leave the concrete and asphalt for the lawn the temp drops from sweltering to, “Wow!!! It’s cool here!” Truly remarkable.

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Kim's avatar

Yep. There are plenty times I've had that pleasant experience of walking up from the subway and getting a nice cooldown from a nice breeze generated from the difference in air pressure; only to, a few steps from the subway exit, be ambushed by 10 ACs, hiding away in a side alley, burning me down with the heat of a thousand hells.

The modern Japanese housebuilding techniques are only to be outdone by traditional British outdoor plumbing freezing over every winter!

Actually, now that you mention it. Simply stepping off the asphalt and onto the gravel, where such is laid down, makes for a noticeable difference.

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Thankfully, that is not something I have had to deal with. What I recently do have to deal with is the sudden explosion of coin laundries everywhere and the drier exhaust that is vented to the street. Whoa! What an experience, like a gigantic hair drier on high heat and turbo fan.

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DW Shumway's avatar

“Updates on various issues”? I’m just scrolling through my inbox and have to hit the road so no time for reading articles, but now you’ve got me hooked. Where do you come up with these zingers? Are you moonlighting at the Globe? I’ll be back!

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Truly. I must plead ignorance here as I am not even sure if this is a compliment, insult or neutral. Given that we meet, I doubt it is an insult. If there are zingers in what I wrote, they are there naturally, I do I’d not intend to write any. I also did not intent to not write any. But I have never been said to have command of zingers before.

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DW Shumway's avatar

Sorry Kitsune,

Traveling through England currently, and I think I may have been in Milton Keynes, where the droll coffee shop lady, when asked “what is this town famous for,” said, “Milton Keynes?” (With a look that said, “You’re kidding me, right?”) then she thought about it and said, “roundabouts I guess”) I laughed at that and sat to read from my Substack inbox on my phone, sitting next to a copy of the Star I’d just bought. They had all the tabloids on the rack and I thought of the catchy, crazy titles to each story. It was just the contrast between those goofy titles and yours that made me laugh, so I made this attempt at humor, which missed, of course. They won’t be hiring me at the Sun. Apologies!

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

No worries. I am admittedly not in good humor of late.

Have been pricing tickets to the States, for myself only.

Love the “roundabouts I guess” response.

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Amat's avatar

1. “COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility – A huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions of citizens across the world. There were numerous examples globally of maintaining social distancing, wearing masks, mass vaccinations and acceptance of contact-tracing applications for public health, which demonstrated the core of individual social responsibility” - and that was what it was all about, they call it “social responsibility” I call it subjugation of the people and it was just a taste of the future they want for all humans on this planet.

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

And, as so few stand in opposition and so many allow it or even cheer it on, it is what we will get.

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